Thursday, 19 June

09.00–16.00

PhD forum (led by Clare Wallace & Chris Megson)

Eštok, Tomáš:
“Intersections Between Queer Theory and Leftist Politics in Anglophone Drama”

Karaköse, Onur:
“Dramatizing Mass Shootings on the Contemporary American Stage: Theater and the Public – Negotiation of a Nation in Crisis”

Knijff, Alba:
“Feminist Ontologies in 21^st Century British Theatre”

Manzella, Charlotte:
“Temporalities in Contemporary British Climate Change Theatre”

Polák, Ondřej:
“Animatedness in  Contemporary American Drama”

Sutherland, Andrew:
“The Virus as Future’s Ghost: Performing the undetectable status as hauntology of possible futures”

Thomas, Jade:
“The Playtext as (In)Visible Mediator: How Metadrama Negotiates Dramatic Representations of Blackness”

Vass, Eszter:
“Trauma and Metatheatre in Contemporary Anglophone Drama”

Welton, Emma:
“Camp Re/production: Queer-Feminist Performance in Austerity London (2014-2024)”

Ye Chengyao:
“Staging Real-Life Nazi Perpetrators: The Dramaturgies and Ethics of Holocaust Theatre”

16.00–18.00

Arrival and registration

18:00-19:00

Dinner

19.00–21.00

Welcome (Kerstin Schmidt, President of CDE) and
“Charting New Stages: An Introduction” (Christina Wald & Leila Michelle Vaziri)

Keynote
(chair: Leila Michelle Vaziri)

Lynette “Lennox” Goddard: “Performing Black Queer Joy as Activist Resistance”

Friday, 20 June

09.00–10.30

Panel I – Staging Queerness

(chair: Ralph Poole)

Amy Terry: “Where Are All the Butches? The Liberating Potential of Illegibility in Queer Performance”

Heidi Liedke & Sarah Busch: “’The system is failing, all of us’: Queering as (Re)directing in I, Joan (2022) and Birds and Bees (2023) by Charlie Josephine”
Aloysia Rousseau: “There’s nothing but delight and desire’: The Poetics and Politics of Pleasure in Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois”

10.30–11.00

Coffee Break

11.00–12.00

Panel II – Queer Temporalities and Spaces
(Chair: Ondřej Pilný)

Eva-Maria Windberger: “Complicating Queer Singaporean Theatre History: Ng Yi-Sheng’s Desert Blooms as Documentary Theatre”

Benjamin Poore: “Exploding History: Queer Temporalities and Forging Queer Connections in Contemporary Playwriting”

12.30–13.30

Lunch

14.00–15.30

Panel III – Bodies and Sexuality

(chair: Gemma Edwards)

Ellen Grünkemeier: “Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance (2018): Performing an  Intergenerational Dialogue About (Homo)Sexuality” 

Edyta Lorek-Jezińska: “‘Delicate, honest and raw’: Reclaiming Sexuality in the 2020s Plays by Disabled Playwrights”

Sara Reimers: “Authentic Casting: Gender, Sexuality and Representation in Contemporary UK Theatre”

15.30–16.00

Coffee Break

16.00–17.30

Panel IV – Gender, Violence and Censorship

(chair: Janine Hauthal)

Lesego Chauke: “Of Dogs that Bark in the Night: Dramaturgies of Queering in Qondiswa James’ A Faint Patch of Light”

Alex Watson & Kit Narey: “‘be it on the street or on the stage’: Situating the Politics of ‘the Stage’ in Recent Trans Performance”

Elisabeth Knittelfelder: “Shifting the Conversation: Testifying Perpetrators in the
Workshop Play #JustMen”

18.00–19.00

Dinner

19.30–20.30

Playwright in Conversation
(chair: Christina Wald)

Charlie Josephine

Saturday, 21 June

09.00–10.00

Keynote
(chair: Christina Wald)

Fintan Walsh: “Dances with Death: Grief as a Kind of Movement”

10.00–10.30

Coffee Break

10.30–12.00

Panel V – Theatre and Trans*

(chair: Jonas Kellermann)

Dorothee Birke & Sarah Back: „Transcending Gender, Transcending Genre: Embodied Selves in the Performances of Travis Alabanza and Kama La Mackerel”

Elisabeth Massana: “’Dysphoria Mundi’: Raving Against Time in Charlie Josephine’s I, Joan.”

Xavier Lemoine: “Trans Intersectional Poetics: Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe”

12.00–13.00

Lunch

13.00–14.30

Assembly of members

14.50

Departure from Hegne

Train Departure: 15.22 (Arrival at Konstanz 15.35)

15.45–17.15

Roundtable

“New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality
in Contemporary Theatre: Practical Perspectives”

(chair: Christina Wald; Spiegelhalle, Theater Konstanz)

Lea Seiz, dramaturgical team Theater Konstanz

Rachel Hann, Associate Professor of Performance and Design and Expert on Scenographics, Transness and Costume (Newcastle)

Jennie Reznek and Mark Fleishman, Artistic Directors of Magnet Theatre (Cape
Town)

17.30–18.30

Dinner (self-paid and pre-booked)

Restaurant Wessenberg
Wessenbergstraße 41
78462 Konstanz
https://wessenberg.de/ 

19.00–c. 21.30

Theatre performance (Konstanz, Münsterplatz)

Open-air production of Brecht and
Weill’s The Threepenny Opera
by Theater Konstanz in cooperation with Bodensee Philharmonie (in German)

Sunday, 22 June

09.00–10.00

Playwright in Conversation
(chair: Leila Michelle Vaziri)

Stef Smith

10.00–10.30

Coffee Break

10.30–12.00

Panel VI – Feminist Stages

(chair: Anja Hartl)

Hannah Greenstreet: “Staging desire in Ella Hickson’s Oil (2016), The Writer (2018), Swive [Elizabeth] (2019) and [Anna] (2019)”

Clare Wallace: “Feminist Interventions: Gender Politics at the Abbey Theatre since 2016”

Trish Reid: “Zinnie Harris: Disrupting the Inevitable Flow of Tragic Time”

12.00–12.30

Closing Remarks: Chris Megson, Kerstin Schmidt, Merle Tönnies, Anette Pankratz, Martin Riedelsheimer & Eckart Voigts

12.30–13.30

Lunch

13.30

Departure